Rob is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Rezco Asset Management, a position that he has held since 2004. Since then, Rezco has achieved a market-leading investment track record and won eight best fund awards in major categories.

Rob graduated from UCT with a B.Com and CTA , and won the national Financial Mail reader stock picking competition as a student before passing the Chartered Accountants Board Exam. He then worked as a portfolio manager for Momentum Life. Rob left to co-lead a private equity deal that involved purchasing the assets of a bankrupt company. As CEO, Rob grew the turnover and profits by a compound 25% per annum for 15 years. When Rob and his consortium exited in 2005, Sovereign Foods was the most profitable South African company in its industry.

Rob's lifelong fascination with markets and investing has refined investing principles that he has infused into the Rezco team, to create a culture of innovative investment thinking.

Simon worked previously in roles at Deutsche Bank (London), Cogito Capital and Discovery Invest. Simon qualified from UKZN with a B.Bus Sci (Finance Honours), and holds the CFA and CIPM designations.

Simon, as Head of Research, has a keen interest in how to incorporate new technologies with behavioural finance and traditional investing to build a highly focused, alpha generating research capacity at Rezco. As Co-Portfolio Manager, Simon works closely with Rob in order to generate exceptional risk-adjusted returns for Rezco’s clients. Simon has filled these roles at Rezco since the end of 2017.

Ron joined Rezco in 2004, after returning from the USA where he completed his MBA. He serves as Operations Director of Rezco. Ron is highly experienced in all facets of Rezco Asset Management.

Brian joined Rezco Asset Management in 2011 as an equity analyst. Prior to joining Rezco, he worked at Goldman Sachs, in London, as a Natural Resources Mergers and Acquisitions analyst before returning to South Africa in 2010. In 2012 he took up the responsibility of heading up distribution for Rezco. In 2015 he was made a Director of Rezco and is now responsible for all distribution aspects at Rezco.

Former senior investment consultant at Old Mutual Actuaries and Consultants and a qualified Actuary with 16 years industry experience. Jan has an B.Sc Honours in Actuarial Science degree and has also completed Computer Science studies at the University of Stellenbosch.

Rob is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Rezco Asset Management, a position that he has held since 2004. Since then, Rezco has achieved a market-leading investment track record and won eight best fund awards in major categories.

Rob graduated from UCT with a B.Com and CTA , and won the national Financial Mail reader stock picking competition as a student before passing the Chartered Accountants Board Exam. He then worked as a portfolio manager for Momentum Life. Rob left to co-lead a private equity deal that involved purchasing the assets of a bankrupt company. As CEO, Rob grew the turnover and profits by a compound 25% per annum for 15 years. When Rob and his consortium exited in 2005, Sovereign Foods was the most profitable South African company in its industry.

Rob's lifelong fascination with markets and investing has refined investing principals that he has infused into the Rezco team, to create a culture of innovative investment thinking.

Brendan completed his Honours degree in Investment Management from the University of Pretoria.
He then joined Rezco as an analyst in 2014 and worked with Rezco for a number of years, covering a range of stocks and themes both locally and globally.

Recently, Brendan has re-joined Rezco after taking time to advise, launch, and transition a few entrepreneurial ventures in South Africa in a variety of industries including retail and manufacturing.

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James Spanjaard is an MBA graduate of Harvard Business School. Prior to HBS, James was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Johannesburg and Munich. At BCG James was selected from a worldwide pool of candidates as one of ten ambassadors to BCG’s internal think-tank, the BCG Henderson Institute. As an ambassador to the Henderson Institute, James helped found BCG’s worldwide AI Initiative. James is passionate about philanthropy and dedicates a portion of his personal time to consulting for two South African non-profits serving local communities through education and job skills training. He has a B.Sc in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University where he was one of two members of his graduating class to receive the prestigious SUNY Chancellor’s Award recognizing student excellence in academics, leadership and service.

Johann graduated from Nelson Mandela University with a B.Sc in Mathematics. As Head of Dealing he is responsible for all trade related compliance and execution, as well as management of research provider relationships. Johann is passionate about leveraging technology and relationships to ensure the best outcomes for our investors

Simon worked previously in roles at Deutsche Bank (London), Cogito Capital and Discovery Invest. Simon qualified from UKZN with a B.Bus Sci (Finance Honours), and holds the CFA and CIPM designations.

Simon, as Head of Research, has a keen interest in how to incorporate new technologies with behavioural finance and traditional investing to build a highly focused, alpha generating research capacity at Rezco. As Co-Portfolio Manager, Simon works closely with Rob in order to generate exceptional risk-adjusted returns for Rezco’s clients. Simon has filled these roles at Rezco since the end of 2017.

Gari graduated from UCT with an honours degree in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management. Gari joined Rezco after spending three years on the sell side covering South African Construction and Building Materials as well as Africa (ex-South Africa).

George graduated with a B. Com (Hons) in Actuarial Science and an M. Com in Mathematical Statistics (Cum Laude) from the University of Stellenbosch. He also participated in an exchange programme at the University of Amsterdam where his studies focused on advanced statistics and machine learning. During his studies, George received the Schroders-Lombard grant for his academic achievements.

Former senior investment consultant at Old Mutual Actuaries and Consultants and a qualified Actuary with 16 years industry experience. Jan has an B.Sc Honours in Actuarial Science degree and has also completed Computer Science studies at the University of Stellenbosch.

Ruan holds a Master of Engineering degree (Cum Laude) from Stellenbosch University, where he also graduated as the top Industrial Engineering final year student (BEng Cum Laude). During his studies, he published multiple research articles in high-impact international journals, was voted by his peers as the most resourceful engineering student, and obtained the highest class average in information systems and computer programming.

Ruan has also worked on several large scale projects in both public and private sectors spanning health care, education, insurance and retail.

Nicholas qualified from Stellenbosch University (SU) with a Bachelor of Engineering (Cum Laude) in Chemical Engineering. He more recently obtained a Ph.D qualification (Chemical Engineering) from SU, the results of which have led to several peer-reviewed international journal publications. These research contributions earned him the nomination as the best Ph.D graduate for the 2019 year in the Department of Process Engineering at SU.

John spent 5 years as Group Head of Commodities Research at Anglo American in London and Johannesburg. He spent six years at McKinsey in London and Johannesburg prior to moving to Anglo American. John has a both an Undergraduate and Masters Engineering Degree from Cambridge University, where he graduated top of his class on both occasions. He followed this up with an MBA from London Business School.

Madelein has a Bachelor of Engineering (Cum Laude) in Industrial Engineering from Stellenbosch University, where she received the ECSA medal for the best Engineering student across all US Engineering departments.

Madelein has previously applied her expertise within a broad range of professional contexts, including the petrochemical and finance industries.

Nic earned his B.Sc (Hons) in Advanced Mathematics of Finance (Cum Laude) from Wits University, graduating as the top student in his class and receiving the award for the best honours project. Nic then went on to complete his M.Sc in Advanced Analytics (Cum Laude) at UCT, covering various courses in statistics and data science, while his research focused on the development, and in-depth statistical analysis, of a quantitative trading algorithm.

Kerri-Anne completed her B.Com. Accounting and Post Graduate Diploma in Accountancy at Nelson Mandela University. She serves as Fund Accountant and heads up Rezco's internal Fund Pricing Team.

Quintin studied at Nelson Mandela University where he received a B.Com and B.Com (Hons) in Accounting. He completed his articles at Deloitte in 2016, and went on to work at Deloitte in Canada before returning to South Africa where he joined the Rezco team as Group Accountant. Quintin is currently studying MBA at the University of Stellenbosch Business School.

Chantal completed a B.Com. General Accounting degree in 2012 from Nelson Mandela University and serves as the Fund Accountant for the Rezco team.

Alex finished his B.Com, majoring in finance and accounting, in 2019. He joined the fund administration team to work on both FA and TA duties.

Eridene joined Rezco after working in the customer service industry for several years. She studied Accounting at Nelson Mandela University, and serves as a Fund Accountant at Rezco.

Kelly-joan Turner holds an LL.B Degree from Nelson Mandela University. She graduated April 2012 and is an Admitted Attorney in the High Court of South Africa. She joined Rezco during June 2020 and assists Management with the development and implementation of the Corporate Compliance Framework and other Legal and Compliance related matters.

Mignon Hauman holds an LL.B (UFS) and an LL.M (UFS, cum laude). She is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa. Mignon joined Rezco in May 2016. She assists Management with the development and implementation of the company's compliance framework and attends to all legal and compliance related matters.

Ronnie studied at Nelson Mandela University where he received a B.Com Accounting degree in 2016 and completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting (PGDA-CTA) in 2017.

He is an alumnus of the Vice-Chancellor Scholarship Programme and the Pinnacle Leadership Programme for top achievers in Accounting at Nelson Mandela University.

He completed his SAICA training contract at Deloitte in 2020 before joining the Rezco team as Accountant in April 2021.

Henk has more than a decade's experience as a financial advisor and as such, understands the dynamic between investors and their advisors. Prior to joining Rezco, Henk worked as a financial advisor for 10 years, of which the last 5 years were General Manager of this 40-advisor firm. It is for this reason he can relate to the challenges and provide solutions to Financial Advisors in the Pretoria, Limpopo and Mpumalanga regions. Henk holds a B.Com in Marketing Management from the University of Pretoria, a B.Com Honours in Financial Planning from the University of Johannesburg, a certificate in Wealth Management and has completed certificate courses in Financial and Investment Analysis, and Equity Valuation. He is also a certificate holder in Investment Foundations from the CFA Institute and a Certified Financial Planner® professional with the Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa.

Dale joined Rezco in 2015, after working as a para-planner. He completed his BCom Rationum (Law) (Cum Laude) and Post-Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning (Cum Laude) at NMMU. Thereafter, he studied an Advanced Post-Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning specialising in estate planning and risk management (Cum Laude) at UFS. He is a CFP® professional. Dale works in the Client Relationships team at Rezco and is a Distribution Analyst.

Lesley has 7 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry, along with 6 years in Client Relationship and Services space.

Prior to joining Rezco, Lesley worked for the Bank of New York Mellon in London, SA Home Loans in their Treasury and Securitisation department and has spent the last 2 and a half years in a Business Development role for Nedbank Private Wealth, KZN.

She is a Certified Financial Planner, with a B.Com (Hons) degree in Economics and Business Management from Stellenbosch University.

Wally has worked in the investment industry all his life, and established Rezco in 1981 after years in the investment division at a large mining resource company, then as the investment manager at Nedbank, and executive director of investments at Sage Holdings. Wally took on the role of non-executive chairman in 2018 after decades at the helm of Rezco.

Leon contributes a wealth of experience as non-executive director. His past titles include Financial Director of the Sage Group and Chairman of the Audit Committee, and he is currently a Project Director of SAICA’s Special Projects with the Departments of Education and Health.

As well as acting as non-executive director for Rezco, Bernie holds the same position at Redefine SA and UK. He is a past Executive Director of the Sage group, and a Managing Director of Sage Unit Trusts. Bernie also served on the CIS Advisory Committee appointed by the Minister of Finance.